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And if so, how much did you cry and why? /his/ books are welcome too.

>> No.13373157

Father and Son by Turgenev

>> No.13373229

>>13373140
Anna Karenina

>> No.13373238

>>13373140
The Awakening

>> No.13373247

Anything by Virgina Wolf. It's that awful.

>> No.13373251

>>13373140
Schindler’s List when the Mongol/Slav abominations hanged poor Amon

>> No.13373259

>>13373251
He asked for books, not movies.

>> No.13374247

>>13373140
The Sun also Rises. The part where the guy gets killed running with the bulls and his family are there at the funeral. Idk why but it made me break down.

>> No.13374422

>>13373140
Siddartha by herman hesse

>> No.13374433

>>13373140
I've never cried while reading but good god thus spoke zarathustra had me close, which is weird because its an incredibly joyous book. i remember feeling that it was the most beautiful thing id ever read at the time

>> No.13374449

>>13373140
This scene from Die Bürgschaft nearly killed me. I always have a hard reaction to visceral helplessness.

Und trostlos irrt er an Ufers Rand,
Wie weit er auch spähet und blicket,
Und die Stimme, die rufende, schicket,
Da stößet kein Nachen. vom sichern Strand,
Der ihn setze an das gewünschte Land,
Kein Schiffer lenket die Fähre,
Und der wilde Strom wird zum Meere.

Da sinkt er ans Ufer und weint und fleht,
Die Hände zum Zeus erhoben:
"O hemme des Stromes Toben!
Es eilen die Stunden, im Mittag steht
Die Sonne und wenn sie niedergeht,
Und ich kann die Stadt nicht erreichen,
So muß der Freund mir erbleichen."

>> No.13374668

Every single canto of the Purgatorio. Didn’t really cry in the Inferno or Paradiso.

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13374683

I actually cried tears of joy when I started reading Moby-Dick for the second time. The first few paragraphs of "Loomings" made me weepy, because I realized how much I deeply loved the book.

>> No.13374739

>>13373157
Book of the year past.
>>13373229
Book of the future.
>>13374422
Book of the eternal.
>>13374668
What is purgatory except a hell for some and a heaven for others? Is it not the book of the here and now?
>>13374683
Book with good recipes for an amuse bouche.

>>13373140
I only engage in sentiment with music and philosophy and psychology. Novels were always my place to go to not feel sadness. I'd probably not engage well with a work that could make me cry.
>>13373157
Everyone should read this book twice for the next ten years.

>> No.13374751

>>13373140
stoner

>> No.13374755

all the ones that are any good

>> No.13374822

>>13374751
the last page is so good.

>> No.13374908

Book of disquiet

>> No.13374924

>>13374751
What am i in for with Stoner? I originally thought it was something alike The Stranger but about a married man who lives a dull life that gets dulled harder by the people around him and his situation in general. What's it about for real though?

>> No.13374964

>>13374908
more like book of discomfort.
spooky stuff!

>> No.13374968
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13374968

Honestly the epilogue of this. Not because it's sad but because it resonated with me so much

>> No.13374980

>>13374924
Read it

>> No.13374984

>>13374433
THIS
Nietzsche feels like a friend...

>> No.13374985

>>13373140
Gears of war : Aspho fields
Cried when Marcus cried.
I’m not kidding, I was about 15.